Much of modern digital audio is built around delta-sigma conversion: immense oversampling, noise shaping, and a statistical approximation of the desired analog result. CH Precision takes a different path. Its DACs are built around true multi-bit R-2R conversion, in which each digital code corresponds directly to a defined analog state. That distinction is not academic. It goes to the heart of CH’s belief that music must be preserved as an ordered sequence in time, not merely reconstructed as an acceptable outcome.
The difficulty is that R-2R makes severe demands. It requires exact resistor matching, thermal consistency, and long-term linearity. CH addresses this where it must be addressed: physically. The ladder resistors are mounted on a single silicon substrate, ensuring geometric uniformity and thermal tracking across the network. In the C10, there are eight resistor arrays per channel, with four devoted to the non-inverted signal and four to its inverted counterpart, all operating within a tightly synchronized DSQ™ phased array designed to ensure greater stability, channel symmetry, and temporal precision, essentially eliminating the microscopic mismatches that erode coherence, linearity, and truth at the lowest levels.
This is not digital as a technical exercise. It is digital, made answerable to music itself.
The aim is not measured by specifications alone. It is a more exact preservation of musical time, structure, and identity.
